Before You Leap Quotes

“madness is like love—you don’t realize you’re in it until half of you is missing.”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“But the trouble with meditation is, it ushers in introspection.”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“Survival isn’t instinctive; it’s reactive”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“tried both, and without much success on either count. It’s more to do with blood, sweat, and tears, plus a hundred other emotionally charged components, all required to put aside their differences and come together at exactly the right moment. Imagine squeezing a lump of coal until it transmutes into a diamond. The reality is, it’s a complicated”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“Even so, one thing that many of the psychologically damaged have in common is a stress-induced thinking pattern aligned more toward the feral than the civilized. And that’s why they act impulsively sometimes, without any obvious rationale. So,”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“In life, a conscience is God’s fail-safe, stopping superselfish people from committing the vilest acts. The trouble with people disconnected from their conscience is they never consider consequences. I”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“alarmed at the number of people who appeared to have no conscience, or if they did, it was buried so deeply under their repressed emotions that it was as good as ineffective, anyway.”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“every experience changes us. Sometimes superficially, sometimes monumentally. Always unexpectedly. Now,”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“I never saw my grandfather cry, not ever. Unlike my grandmother, who had cried for them both. I”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“Survival isn’t instinctive; it’s reactive. That’s what grief does: It makes us think illogically, irrationally. It turns us temporarily insane. Thankfully,”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“A problem shared isn’t always a problem halved. I”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“Either there was a raccoon in the pool doing lengths or someone was loitering in the yard. My”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“Well-wishers will tell you that wounds heal over time. Don’t believe them. The”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap

“No lost cause is ever worth dying for.”
― Keith Houghton, Before You Leap